BORN/MAASTRICHT - Sixty-year-old café owner Hub D. from Guttecoven is suspected of assaulting three (former) employees. Yesterday, the manager of café In de Limburg Potin Born stood trial before the court in Maastricht. The session was suspended indefinitely at the request of his lawyer Serge Weening. Weening wants to listen to tape recordings of interrogations of witnesses as well as his own client. The lawyer also wants to hear some more witnesses. Three former employees have filed a report against D. The café owner allegedly trapped the women, who worked as waiters in his Born establishment, in a cramped room. According to the summons, the man then kissed the girls on the mouth against their will, pulled them against him and touched their breasts and buttocks.
D. allegedly forced his co-workers under the threat of violence to undergo the lewd acts. According to the indictment, this happened several times in different periods. Some of the girls were minors. The case was heard yesterday. But the hearing did not last long, because the suspect's lawyer immediately asked for the case to be adjourned. Weening: "I only received the file yesterday and therefore did not have enough time to go through everything with my client." D. himself said he did not immediately engage a lawyer because of financial reasons and because he "did not think" it would come to a trial. The court was not sensitive to those arguments. Weening's question about the tape recordings and hearing witnesses did convince the judges to refer the case to the examining magistrate. Under the condition that in a subsequent hearing the case will be dealt with substantively.When, is still unknown.

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